Wittgenstein Books

New and Published Books

1. Wittgenstein's Novels

   By Martin Klebes

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

   By James Atkinson

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Logic

   Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

   By Paul Livingston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Beyond The Tractatus Wars

   The New Wittgenstein Debate

   Edited by Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery

   Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate...

   Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. Wittgenstein

   By William Child

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology...

   Published April 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

   By Pasquale Frascolla

   Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus provides an accessible and yet novel discussion of all the major themes of the Tractatus. The book starts by setting out the history and structure of the Tractatus. It then investigates the two main dimensions of the early Wittgenstein's thought,...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy

   Outline of a Philosophical Revolution

   By Eugen Fischer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the...

   Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
8. Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

   Edited by Max Kölbel, Bernhard Weiss

   Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence and why has it proved so enduring?In Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
9. Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus

   Edited by Irving M. Copi, Robert W. Beard

   Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
10. Marx and Wittgenstein

    Social Praxis and Social Explanation

    By D. Rubinstein

    Despite the great differences between them, both Marx and Wittgenstein reject Cartesian dualism by showing that the mind is a property of action and that hte meaning of an action lies not in subjective consciousness but in the system of social praxis in which an action occurs. This common view...

    Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge